Speaking topics in text
Using the example from the lecture, explain the comfort zone bias.
Psychologists have found that when people make important decisions, they often choose to stay in their “comfort zones”; that is, they prefer remaining in comfortable, familiar situations, rather than entering into new, unfamiliar ones. This tendency is often referred to as the comfort zone bias. When people are reasonably content, they often decide not to pursue a new opportunity, even if it attracts them and offers more advantages. Psychologists believe that the comfort zone bias exists not only because we have a natural preference for what we already know, but also because we want to avoid taking risks.
Speaking recording
Votes
Speaking category
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 465.0 592.248995984 79% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 140.0 155.574297189 90% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 3.32142857143 3.80514564318 87% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.43979062825 3.525876923 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.40034616712 1.79077849142 78% => Word Length is similar.
Unique words: 71.0 93.7148594378 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.507142857143 0.604071249207 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 150.3 185.844578313 81% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.19417670683 92% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0224065055624 0.0650381309087 34% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 8.0 4.35341365462 184% => OK
Average paragraph length: 17.5 68.503853103 26% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 9.13783344125 21.3332995233 43% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 6.7975 25.9943957902 26% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 3.22032510005 7.84667146824 41% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 52.0 42.0642570281 124% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.69230769231 4.02192344571 67% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.89674277014 3.1217529195 61% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 0.9425 1.45093177766 65% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.559460162189 0.99851816184 56% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 51.0 39.0421686747 131% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 9.7 7.12997991968 136% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.190196078431 0.185688545393 102% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.161664020954 0.155154303396 104% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 37.52 47.1480722892 80% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.268 0.305395592593 88% => OK
STD word duration: 0.135758188388 0.189427763521 72% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 2.0 7.94979919679 25% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 1.5 6.2937751004 24% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 5.17 3.39508032129 152% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 54.38 59.7592369478 91% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.906333333333 0.995987282463 91% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.937844795881 0.656000678711 143% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.57447591026 2.60215298798 99% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.30562706878 1.56821927147 83% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.89232409382 1.99336655568 95% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.382573164286 0.317803793328 120% => OK
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 15.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.